Centre for Infrastructure Systems Engineering
Our infrastructure systems engineering covers activities across a wide range of spatial and temporal scales aimed at sustainable infrastructure delivery and management.
Overview
Our research encompasses the behaviour of complex structural systems under cyclic, dynamic and extreme loads, the life-cycle characterisation and modelling of damage processes, and the performance management of individual assets and large infrastructure networks. We investigate the enormous potential of digital technologies, including sensing and machine learning algorithms, telecommunication engineering and data science on smart infrastructure and its social, environmental and economic impact on society. Advanced physical testing plays a key part in our research, with tests possible on a wide spectrum of specimens, from single fibres to full-scale bridge sub-assemblies in loading frames ranging from 1N to 1MN.
Our staff and research students bring together core competencies in materials, mechanics and structural engineering, with expertise in statistical methods, informatics and decision theory. We have established collaborations with a variety of industry partners, enabling us to analyse real data from critical infrastructure assets and to influence the development of industry guidelines on design, inspection and maintenance.
Research areas
- Asset integrity management of transport and water infrastructure networks
- Infrastructure monitoring and data analytics
- Innovative construction materials
- Hybrid and composite construction systems
- Modelling and testing of structures under static/dynamic/fatigue loading
- Risk and resilience of infrastructure assets and networks
- Robustness and progressive collapse of structural systems
- Spatial structures: form development and optimisation
- Urban systems growth modelling and nature-based solutions.
People
Academic staff
Dr Dan Bompa
Senior Lecturer | Structures and Materials Lab Lead
Dr Yidu Bu
Lecturer in Civil and Environmental Engineering
Professor Marios Chryssanthopoulos
Professor of Structural Systems
Dr Marco Funari
Lecturer in Civil and Environmental Engineering
Dr Alex Hagen-Zanker
Associate Professor in Infrastructure Systems
Dr Donya Hajializadeh
Senior Lecturer in Bridge/Structural Engineering
Dr Boulent Imam
Associate Professor (Reader) in Civil Engineering
Dr Michael Mulheron
Reader in Construction Materials, Director of Learning and Teaching for Civil and Environmental Engineering
Professor Gerard Parke
Emeritus Professor of Structural Engineering
Dr Juan Sagaseta
Reader in Structural Robustness
Research staff
Dr Jingyan Yu
Research Fellow
Postgraduate research students
Dr Samuel Nkereuwem
Optimising structural elements containing hybrid fibre-reinforced concrete
Chia Sadik
Postgraduate research student
Pablo Vallhonrat Blanco
Robustness of bridge structures under extreme hydraulic actions
Chenmeng Zhang
Performance of one-part multi-binder alkali-activated materials and components